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Dave Hurt Dave Hurt is offline
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Actually, the whole battery memory thing is a fallacy. NiCd and NnMH do not form "memories." What does happen, is that the batteries discharge at different rates. With most peak chargers, it detects when the battery pack has hit the peak of it's charge. If you let the cells sit for a little while, 1 cell will probably have a higher charge then the rest. When you're charging them, that 1 cell will reach it's peak before the others and set off the peak charger, stopping the pack from getting a full charge. But that only happens if you let the cells sit for several days. You could go for a couple days without having to discharge the cells, but it's best to totally discharge them when you're done for the day. Other then that you don't have to worry about that problem. And it's relativly easy to fix that problem as well if it does happen, you just put the cells on a slow charge overnight and it puts an even charge on all the cells.

Perhaps it may not be useful for the general matches, but I had the finals in mind when I was writing this. I can remember a couple finals matches where we could've used new batteries, but we couldn't get them because our other packs were low as well. And our robot didn't perform as well as it could've on a full battery. Whether that effected the match or not, who knows, but it would be nice to have that option to fully recharge batteries between those close matches.
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